Re: [racket] provide in ISL

2011-10-14 Thread Jean-Paul Roy
+1, named (check-if ...) -jpr Le 14 oct. 2011 à 03:01, users-requ...@racket-lang.org a écrit : > De : Adam Shaw > Date : 13 octobre 2011 05:27:01 HAEC > À : users@racket-lang.org > Objet : [racket] provide in ISL > > Greetings -- Wondering about the possible inclusion

Re: [racket] provide in ISL

2011-10-13 Thread Stephen Bloch
On Oct 12, 2011, at 11:27 PM, Adam Shaw wrote: > Greetings -- Wondering about the possible inclusion of provide in the student > languages, say ISL. I'm interested to hear the rationale for its exclusion. > It seems worthwhile to promote modular programming and fair to introduce > early. I've

Re: [racket] provide in ISL

2011-10-13 Thread Matthias Felleisen
It's on the todo list. See RacketCon. On Oct 12, 2011, at 11:27 PM, Adam Shaw wrote: > Greetings -- Wondering about the possible inclusion of provide in the student > languages, say ISL. I'm interested to hear the rationale for its exclusion. > It seems worthwhile to promote modular program

Re: [racket] provide in ISL

2011-10-13 Thread Robby Findler
In general, the teaching languages were designed to cater to a specific instantiation of HtDP, not for the way anyone might want to use the ideas in the blue book to teach programming (also worth noting here: the book and the design of the languages predates modules in Racket). The mechanism to sup

[racket] provide in ISL

2011-10-13 Thread Adam Shaw
Greetings -- Wondering about the possible inclusion of provide in the student languages, say ISL. I'm interested to hear the rationale for its exclusion. It seems worthwhile to promote modular programming and fair to introduce early. Regards, Adam ___